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[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 96 points 5 months ago

FYI because the actual reasons for this feud are under-reported:

  1. Colombia has been accepting deported immigrants for years without complaint. They were being sent by charter or commercial aircraft, and the Colombia government was notified ahead of time that they were coming.

  2. Trump sent a group of deportees on a military aircraft

  3. Trump did not notify Colombia that this aircraft was coming, and as such tried to lands a military aircraft in a sovereign state with no warning

  4. Colombia said fuck that, the plane eventually landed in Honduras, and Colombia sent another plane to pick the people up from there.

  5. Colombia said "what the fuck dude" and Trump the a temper tantrum

  6. Side note, every single one of those deportees was arrested by the Biden admin, so it's not like this is even Trump delivering on his campaign promises. He's just doing a worse job at what Biden was already doing.

[-] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 10 points 5 months ago
[-] WordBox@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Hate to say it... Sources?

[-] mr_manager@lemmy.world 53 points 5 months ago

This is the most frustrating and stupid news cycle - the US government has been sending folks back to Colombia via commercial flights since like 2020. The Biden administration sent 124 flights last year. The only difference is that the Trump team wanted to make a big show of sending people in chains on a military flight, and the Colombian government wanted their citizens to be treated like human beings. Our media is shamefully inadequate to this moment.

this post was submitted on 28 Jan 2025
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